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Re: 360/20, was PDP 11/40 system manual

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From: Peter Flass
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:40
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John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
> In article <f4077026-2b80-47e0...@googlegroups.com>,
> Quadibloc  <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>> Maybe making a cheap 1401 wouldn't have been a bad idea.
>> 
>> And don't forget that the 360/20 wasn't compatible either.
> 
> The instruction set was different (mostly upward compatible with a
> real 360 which as far as I can tell, never mattered) but most of the
> peripherals were the same.
> 
> The 2560 MFCM card read/punch/interpret/sort/crumple device and the
> internal modems were unique to the /20 but the 1403 printer, 2415 tape,
> and everything else were regular 360 devices.  The 2311 disk was the
> same physical drive and pack, but the disks used fixed sectors so you
> couldn't read or write them on anything but another /20.
> 

True? I thought you could read, but not write them, because the sectors
looked like CKD blocks, but maybe I'm thinking of another system.

-- 
Pete
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